Table 4 
Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2025 

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Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2025
2025 – Crime Severity Index2024 to 2025 – Crime Severity Index2025 – Crime rate2024 to 2025 – Crime rate
  index % change rate % change
Canada 75.0 -5 5,585 -2
Census metropolitan areas1,2,3        
St. John's 79.2 -2 6,163 -8
Halifax 68.6 -6 6,094 2
Moncton 105.6 11 7,561 6
Saint John 70.0 20 4,556 3
Fredericton 80.5 7 5,734 6
Saguenay 49.3 -13 2,973 -13
Québec 55.0 -1 3,493 -3
Sherbrooke 50.3 -7 3,134 -5
Trois-Rivières 56.0 -10 3,417 -3
Drummondville 72.3 4 4,084 0s
Montréal 61.3 -5 3,641 -5
Gatineau4 60.6 -2 3,700 -2
Ottawa5 50.6 -6 4,212 -2
Kingston 61.5 1 5,005 2
Belleville–Quinte West 63.1 -3 4,920 -1
Peterborough 57.3 -6 5,385 1
Toronto 55.0 -7 3,950 -5
Hamilton 54.8 -7 4,076 -4
St. Catharines–Niagara 53.8 -9 4,139 -2
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 66.8 -9 5,083 -5
Brantford 72.1 8 5,381 10
Guelph 57.8 2 4,288 3
London 66.0 8 5,059 7
Windsor 55.4 -12 4,203 -10
Barrie 46.9 -3 3,777 -4
Greater Sudbury 64.9 -2 4,706 3
Thunder Bay 114.1 3 8,373 18
Winnipeg 113.4 -9 7,899 0s
Regina 87.4 -12 6,543 -12
Saskatoon 98.9 -7 7,532 -5
Lethbridge 107.7 2 8,335 8
Calgary 61.7 -3 5,038 5
Red Deer 114.4 -3 10,592 -1
Edmonton 95.6 -7 7,463 2
Kelowna 103.7 -4 8,688 -2
Kamloops 126.2 -4 10,949 3
Chilliwack 134.3 -4 11,455 3
Abbotsford–Mission 95.5 -1 6,717 4
Vancouver 83.5 1 5,672 3
Victoria 74.6 5 5,588 6
Nanaimo 106.0 -1 9,648 3
0
true zero or a value rounded to zero
0s
value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note(s):
Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Areas with smaller populations are more susceptible to year-to-year variation in Crime Severity Index and crime rate values. As a result, relatively small changes in the number or severity of police-reported incidents can have a greater impact on values for these areas. Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic violations, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes by census metropolitan area are available beginning in 1998. The crime rate is based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic violations. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded values or rates. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source(s):
Tables 35-10-0177-01 and 35-10-0026-01.

Table note 1

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

Table note 2

Census metropolitan area populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

Table note 3

The Oshawa census metropolitan area (CMA) is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

Table note 4

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

Table note 5

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.
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